Environmentalists Begin National Water March

Environmentalists and civil society groups in three Peruvian regions began on Wednesday a national water march, aimed mainly at rejecting Newmont Mining’s Minas Conga project.  The marchers plan to converge in Lima by next week. In Cajamarca region, where Conga is located, about 500 people began the march at the Cortada lake, Ideeleradio reported. Supporters [...]

Satellite images confirm true source of the Amazon

Satellite images taken by the Kompsat-2 confirm the findings of a scientific expedition made 15 years ago to the source of the Amazon River —a small spring in the Apacheta gulley on Mt. Quehisha, 5150 meters above sea level in the Andes of southern Arequipa. Confirmation of Apacheta as the source also means that the [...]

Cuzco, Madre de Dios and Arequipa lead human trafficking cases

Peru’s southern regions of Cusco, Madre de Dios and Arequipa have had the highest number of human trafficking cases so far this year, CNR news service reported, citing the Health ministry. So far this year, the ministry has rescued 229 people who were victims of human trafficking, the report says. Cusco had the most cases with 35, [...]

History of Peru Special – Anniversary of Arequipa

For Arequipeños “abroad” – and that category includes those in Lima -  this month is a celebration of a special identity. The published program of events  in La Ciudad Blanca, as Arequipa is known, stretches over 29 days, peaking at the official Aniversario of August 15 with its magnificent street parades of dancers from all round the [...]

Cade 2009 – Peru’s 47th Annual Business Conference opens in Arequipa

Peru’s leading business executives, investors and politicians were in Arequipa today for the opening of the country’s major business event of the year, the Cade annual executives’ conference.   The theme of the conference this year is Our Future, Our Opportunity, and the opening address was given by the former Inter-American Development Bank chief and [...]

Inca and pre-Inca tombs found in Arequipa park during remodelling

More than 60 Inca and pre-Inca tombs, as well as ceramics, were found by city workers in Arequipa’s Selva Alegre Ecological Park, daily Peru21 reported Tuesday.

Prehistoric fossil found on bus during routine police check

Authorities in Peru’s hinterlands are accustomed to seizing all sorts of contraband stowed aboard the never-ending caravan of passenger buses that rumble across the Andes toward the capital, Lima: Pre-Columbian artifacts sacked from ancient ruins. Religious relics and paintings torn from the walls of colonial era churches. Tons of Cocaine. But in Peru’s Arequipa Department [...]